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  1. Re:network specialist on The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist · · Score: 1

    And dont for get this probably includes a large number of higher level telco engineers who probaly bump up the average.

  2. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    Only for short ranges and relatively low power levels - that's why old time phone engineers have funny stories about amusing mishaps with the DC plant in exchanges.

  3. No he became a vampire and moved to Canada to become an actor - wouldn't you if you had a chance of a snog with Amanda tapping ;-)

  4. Yes minster had it right on Running Great Britain? There's an App For That! · · Score: 1

    I think we need to update a famous yes minster sketch.

    Sir Humphrey: Well briefly sir I am the Permanent Undersecretary of State known as the Permanent Secretary, Wooley here is your Principle Private Secretary I too have a Principle Private Secretary, and he is the Principle Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary, directly responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Undersecretaries and two hundred and nineteen assistant secretaries, directly responsible to the Principle Private Secretaries are Plain Private Secretaries, and the Prime Minister will be appointing two Parliamentary Undersecretaries and you will be appointing your own Parliamentary Private Secretary.

    Jim: Can they all us the ipad app?

    Sir Humphrey: None of us can type Minister, Mrs McKay uses the ipad, she's the secretary.

    You think i jest but i talked to some one last year who worked for the lords and the amount of drafting and toing and froing just to publish one tweet was comical.

  5. Re:Believe it or not... on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    100's of milions to get a new drug all the way through the various phases and into production.

  6. Re:Why $4 for a latte? on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    Depends what you commute to work is like :-)

  7. Re:SHOULD "Apps" Cost Something? on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    Well there are very good arguments for making unpaid internships illegal on discrimination grounds. Even conservative MP's have said so.

  8. Re:Autodetection? on How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked · · Score: 1

    Probably some low level Googler did this because he has a beef with Mr Siegler - this is the same as News International Monstering people that disagree with them.

  9. Re:In certain states it's also against the law on How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked · · Score: 2

    Ok so flipping some one the finger is illegal but Fred Phelps et al are not locked up - only in America

  10. Re:Google is an American on How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked · · Score: 1

    oh come on 90% of googlers have a hard time understanding there are other countries than the USA

  11. Re:V Sign. on How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked · · Score: 1

    Actualy its a F%^k you to the french - Archers showing they still had two fingers to shoot longbows at the french.

  12. Re:IT managers don't divulge what they know? on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    Google developers did a half assed job :-)

  13. Re:Train perspective on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    Lol we have a driver on the Bedford to St Pancras line in the UK who explains in great detail the bang the Vacuum Circuit breaker on the pantograph makes when the train goes over a dead spot.

  14. Re:Have you talked to anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    realy? and in in what jurisdiction? are you an employment lawyer. Certainly the very senior guy I spoke to about this about (Unions general counsel and now senior HR for a major multinational) would disgaree with you.

    As many others have said work done out side of work that is related to the work you are employed to do by your employer does belong to them - this all descends from the Master and Servants act which UK USA and Canadian employment law descends from.

    Unfortunately you seem to think that the employer / Employee relationship is more eaquel than it is in reality.

  15. Re:Keeping a secret on What Life Was Like Inside the Hexagon Project · · Score: 1

    Actulay you probably can make educated guesses - back in the day I was asked to digitize from high speed film from a test rig (basically project the film on a wall covered with graph paper and step through frame by frame and by hand mark the position of the "object". It was quite obvious what it was and when I commented to my office mate he said oh yes that will be "codename1" the upgrade for "codename2". "Codename1" was a secret at the time though private eye had leaked info about it.

    And in the 40's one of the editors of a major Sf mag realized that something was up when he saw such a huge cluster of subscribers out at los alamos.

  16. Re:Have you talked to anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately this is not about overtime its who owns the code and as Both Canada and the USA employment law descends from the UK masters and servants act (as amended) and work that is related to your employment belongs to your employer.

  17. Re:Dumb ass on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately as jhoegl says your SOL its directly related to your work so it belongs to your employers.

  18. Re:Simple To Take Down IF Desired on More Details On Drug Cartel's Clandestine Communications Network · · Score: 1

    Yes you would have thought that inserting you own messages in to the system would be a good tactic or deliberately give the impression that the Cartels dickers (the spotters) had sold them out.

  19. Re:Dumbasses. on Amazon Patents Deducing Religion From Gift Wrap · · Score: 2

    No no they give citronella flavored candles to the leader of the coven - demons just lap it up its just like catnip to them

  20. Re:If not China or Russia... on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 1

    good luck with that one has to have a recognized state to have embassys

  21. Re:Not just the pay...it's the location. on East Coast vs. West Coast In the Quest For Young Programming Talent · · Score: 1

    BT's head office is still at 81 Newgate Street - the "workstyle buildings" seem to have been abandoned.

  22. Re:infoworld spam again on Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users · · Score: 1

    They also seem to have some sockpuppets marking comments like yours and mine down.

  23. Re:Not just the pay...it's the location. on East Coast vs. West Coast In the Quest For Young Programming Talent · · Score: 1

    It is if the work is substandard if our MD asked me I would say move all our UK devs back to central London it would make supervision and recruitment easier. I have told my boss a Director of a large organization about my concerns about our lack of senior developers to mentor the junior ones and in the general quality of work.

  24. Re:Not just the pay...it's the location. on East Coast vs. West Coast In the Quest For Young Programming Talent · · Score: 2

    Depends if you want to be taken seriously you do need a proper address both for image and also to keep the City happy. I used to work for a big telco there was an idea to move the head office from the City to some crap office block near Heathrow. That was stopped when apparently the CEO said "world class companies don't have head office in a FUCKING shed at Heathrow".

  25. Re:Not just the pay...it's the location. on East Coast vs. West Coast In the Quest For Young Programming Talent · · Score: 1

    In a small town you get a much smaller pool of developers and your often far away from your target market